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Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

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Mark Coles

Neil George

Last Word: A novelist, a botanist, a TV writer, a missionary and a composer

A novelist, a botanist, a TV writer, a missionary and a composer

07/06/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, A novelist, a botanist, a TV writer, a missionary and a composer

Mark Coles on Tom Sharpe, Nigel Hepper, Anne Valery, Henri Dutilleux, Molly Clutton-Brock.

Obituary series. Mark Coles remembers writer Tom Sharpe, botanist Nigel Hepper, TV writer Anne Valery, composer Henri Dutilleux and missionary Molly Clutton-Brock.

Mark Coles on:

The writer Tom Sharpe, best known for his comic novels like Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.

The Kew Gardens botanist Nigel Hepper who foresaw the effects of global warming decades before anyone else.

Anne Valery, the co-writer of the hugely successful BBC World War 2 drama, Tenko.

The leading French classical composer, Henri Dutillieux. A man who believed in the magic of music.

And Molly Clutton-Brock, a British missionary who set up ground-breaking clinics to help disadvantaged children in former Rhodesia.

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